Lord Shadow

Chapter 1744: Things He Must Do Alone

Purity is sometimes too clear and too perfect that it makes it more terrifying

Because of that she did not mind burying the world because of the person she loves because nothing else matters to her other than this pureness of feeling toward the people she love.

But she has also seen people. More and more people. In these five years in this unfamiliar land, they met many people. Common people. All of them have their own stories.

And in the past Katarina did not care much about other people stories. But with Azief, she is forced to learn

It was like Azief wanted her to learn.... learn to open up to the world. To people.

Like some kind of preparation.

And in her journey as a farmer wife, she interacts with people she find it hard to forget.

This is not the only place she had been in these five years.

They create many residences all over the Untainted Land. Sometimes, they live in villages, sometimes in cities and sometime in the capital kingdom of newly established empire.

There is always people.

She remembers a fisherman who would come to a lake every morning to fish near her house. And when this fisherman caught many fish, he would give it to her with a smile.

She remembers a woman who is always a busybody, loud and crude in her words but her heart is sincere and would always share food with her.

She remembers a precocious child who only acted precocious in front of her parents so that her parents would not be sad

She remembers a mother who lost her son and a father who lost his daughter having their own way dealing with their grief.

She remembers a farmer that would always complained that he would quit the farming job and wanted to become a pirate again and sail the Ten Seas before his wife would pull his ears and berate him.

A joy of life, laughter and tears, happiness and sorrow, parting and reunion. These five years are probably the most precious and most lively five years in her life.

Living in her Ice Palace, she had never walked the mortal world since she become the Ice Queen and since her brother become the Right Chancellor.

But now that she had stained her feet onto the mortal world, full of mortal tribulations, she find it not so bad.

Azief said it to her one night, she had grown up...a bit.

She looks at Azief and she could not help but sigh ”I just worry that some people would know and take advantage of your current situation” Hearing this Azief only laugh and shakes his head ”When was there a time that they did not want to take advantage of me. Since I sat at such a high position, I should expect it. I donʼt think you would like a man that complain so much. I already sat at this high position and this is not a position that I could easily vacate. Since I could no longer avoid it, at least I should accept it”

Hearing this Katarina could not help but envy that wife of the pirate turned farmer. And she could only sigh

This is life. Sometimes, there are things you could not run away from.

Azief is right now in the Untainted Land but there is no one that knows this other than Oreki, Hikigaya and Raymond.

Raymond usually tells everything to Hirate and Oreki and Hikigaya also has their own confidant but Azief is quite sure that they would not dare to break the promise.

Azief made them promise not to tell anyone that he is not there on top of the sky.

Hikigaya and Oreki vowed he would not tell anyone and his promise is bind by the Heavenly Will

As for Raymond, Azief knows that even if he does not make a promise, he would not tell anyone that he is not there in the sky

Because if he does that, he would not be Raymond

He knows exactly what would happen in the world if the news that he is not there on the sky is spread out.

It would not lead to a war like before because Azief has already intimidate the world when he defeated Kaiju. But it would sow the seed for further chaos.

And now, isnʼt it good? Everyone is behaving and with the sudden change of the world and the world climate, there is many more important things that people should pay attention about

Though, it is not that he is lying.

He has two avatars.

The Avatar of Harmony is probably sitting cross legged in the air near some black hole, trying to understand the concept of harmony and integrate all the laws that is in its being.

As for the Avatar of Chaos he is up there in the sky, watching the formation all over the world stabilizing.

When it is done doing that, his Avatar of Chaos would go all over the Omniverse.

Where he would go is something that even Azief donʼt know.

Azief did not want to use these two avatars unless he is about to be facing a mortal enemy.

And that is why Azief realm right now is only in Seed Forming realm.

If he goes out of this Land, he could at most raise his realm to Disk Formation.

But even though his realm of power is low, the energy of rules and laws surrounded him.

So, it is not like he has no protection at all.

And anytime someone wanted to attack him, Azief could easily summons these two avatars to return. They could traverse literal universes in the speed of thought

It is just that doing that he would break the accumulation of thought, knowledge and experience of the Avatar. What if the avatars are having a breakthrough and he summons his avatar right at that moment?

That would be detrimental to his cultivation of energy and power and to understand the laws and the rules of the Omniverse.

Katarina could see that Azief is about to crease his forehead again and she sighed. ”The world is not that much in a chaos. The pirates are behaving. The world powers are pacifying the people and governing their new territories. As for heroes and villains of the world, they have a whole new world to explore. Those adventurers would also not make problems as there is so many things to discover under the Heavens.” She paused for a second ”This is a new Age of Discovery. There would not be too much problem. What about spending a few more years in this land. We could wait until you reach stabilization with your current realm”

Azief look at Katarina and even though she tries to hide it, Katarina has never been good at hiding her true feelings.

It is not a suitable for such a person to sit in high position. But as a person, Azief like this kind of person more.

Because with this kind of person, he does not need to think too much nor scheme and plots or uses force and power

Honest person words are hard to take but it lets you learn a lot about yourself. She understood her feeling.

And that is enough

She is worried about him. And that alone touched his heart ”I could not risk it” ”And I could not risk you, trying to kill yourself” Katarina mutters.

Azief holds Katarina hands as she looks at him. The worries is clear on her face but Azief simply shakes his head ”Since I was the one that made this world like this, then it is only right for me to assure the world”

Hearing this Katarina sigh. For a moment there is silence between them both. Azief enjoy this kind of silence and he closes his eyes. ”Then? What will you do?” the question come a few second after the silence so Azief opens his eyes

He look at the dark night sky with the moon illuminating the skies and he tilted his ehad. It seems like he is thinking about something

There is a smile on his face ”I would choose some islands near the Free Continent and create my own fortress of solitude.” He said while he chuckles.

Then he added ”Among other things I would do” Katarina heard his words and she understood the implication.

She would not be there.

Azief has many things he could do with Katarina. But there are also certain things he must do alone.

Because some of these things is dangerous. Because some of these things involve certain kind of fate and destiny.

Of cause and effect.

And Katarina should not be connected to these cause and effect

Because when someone is connected to someone cause and effect, it is not that easy to come out of it.

Azief is still holding that blue crystal.

That is still something he wanted to solve

He has always wanted to unravel the mystery of that blue crystal and he believe that if he could see the knowledge hidden in that blue crystal, the way forward for him to become stronger would be clear.

Now, Azief is embarking in a new road of strength. He doesnʼt know if it would work. He is groping the way forward. And the way forward is dark. There would trial and error. But the blue crystal seems to be the crystallization of the Etherna knowledge.

What knowledge would these race that is known as the First Race would record in this crystal? >>